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EPISODE · Feb 15, 2026 · 5 MIN

Hey Simon! Obsidian? E677

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Bernie thinkis we should try a community project using Obsidian. It's starting with a small project between Roger Overall, Brigit Kolen in The Netherlands, and Tim Ereneta in California. Bernie just heard something interesting in the podverse and by Adam Curry, the podfather. He is using Obsidian.Can you imagine?Here is what Adam had to say inCasting 2.0 for February 13th, 2026, episode 250, Dopaminergic:"Obsidian's my jam. I live in Obsidian. A lot of people use Obsidian. I use it as an outline. You can use it in many different ways, and it's completely scriptable. So an example: every day it has a new folder for the year, month, day. I use a markdown widget on the browser. So if I see an article that I want to save, then I just hit that little widget and it will save the title and the URL. And on desktop, it'll actually save a markdown version of the page. The whole thing is based on markdown files.And even if I get something from Gemini, I have a prompt that says put it into an Obsidian template. It does tags and all the stuff I need to just have a database, a knowledge base of stuff, and I can search it and I can organize it. And so when it comes to show day, regardless of what show it is, I'll check on the tags, as I mark all the different shows I do with tags. And then I drag it into a show folder with topics. And then I have a script which will export it to OPML and I can import that right into the Freedom Controller. It really is nice. But you can also, if you want, turn it into mind mapping. I don't use that. I just use it as an outliner, knowledge-based storage system, and it syncs between all my devices. I live in that. I just absolutely write down a note, boom, got it, because you can find it. You can really find stuff. Yeah, I probably need to look at this because Alex Gates turned me on to it. Ever since I got Obsidian, like, oh man, I love this. This thing is awesome. It really is. My whole life is in it. You can put code in it. Code blocks. Yeah, it's Markdown. So, yeah. Hello. Yeah. Hello. Pretty cool."So that's Adam Curry talking about Obsidian, my favorite knowledge management system.With Roger, I'm hoping to connect a vault in Obsidian between Roger, Brigit Kolen, a creative media writer in the Netherlands, and myself as we talk about authentic storytelling.Another partner, and it would be Tim Ereneta in Berkeley, may row in.  For you then, Simon, if you think you'd be interested in connecting up a vault that would generate OPML, that would be handy.I think I can figure it out based on the community plugins that are inside the Obsidian community, but who knows?This is interesting.And the other thing I want to do is use Airtable iframes inside of Obsidian.And that should be as dead simple as buying the right plan with Airtable and then injecting, inserting the iframe.Different plans allow different kinds of dynamic insertion. Some are just a view. Some are allowing in and out.But those are two things: Obsidian in its native form to generate OPML. And Obsidian with in and out Airtable.This is interesting to me because I know it moves the ball down the pitch of authentic storytelling.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

Bernie thinkis we should try a community project using Obsidian. It's starting with a small project between Roger Overall, Brigit Kolen in The Netherlands, and Tim Ereneta in California. Bernie just heard something interesting in the podverse and by Adam Curry, the podfather. He is using Obsidian.Can you imagine?Here is what Adam had to say inCasting 2.0 for February 13th, 2026, episode 250, Dopaminergic:"Obsidian's my jam. I live in Obsidian. A lot of people use Obsidian. I use it as an outline. You can use it in many different ways, and it's completely scriptable. So an example: every day it has a new folder for the year, month, day. I use a markdown widget on the browser. So if I see an article that I want to save, then I just hit that little widget and it will save the title and the URL. And on desktop, it'll actually save a markdown version of the page. The whole thing is based on markdown files.And even if I get something from Gemini, I have a prompt that says put it into an Obsidian template. It does tags and all the stuff I need to just have a database, a knowledge base of stuff, and I can search it and I can organize it. And so when it comes to show day, regardless of what show it is, I'll check on the tags, as I mark all the different shows I do with tags. And then I drag it into a show folder with topics. And then I have a script which will export it to OPML and I can import that right into the Freedom Controller. It really is nice. But you can also, if you want, turn it into mind mapping. I don't use that. I just use it as an outliner, knowledge-based storage system, and it syncs between all my devices. I live in that. I just absolutely write down a note, boom, got it, because you can find it. You can really find stuff. Yeah, I probably need to look at this because Alex Gates turned me on to it. Ever since I got Obsidian, like, oh man, I love this. This thing is awesome. It really is. My whole life is in it. You can put code in it. Code blocks. Yeah, it's Markdown. So, yeah. Hello. Yeah. Hello. Pretty cool."So that's Adam Curry talking about Obsidian, my favorite knowledge management system.With Roger, I'm hoping to connect a vault in Obsidian between Roger, Brigit Kolen, a creative media writer in the Netherlands, and myself as we talk about authentic storytelling.Another partner, and it would be Tim Ereneta in Berkeley, may row in.  For you then, Simon, if you think you'd be interested in connecting up a vault that would generate OPML, that would be handy.I think I can figure it out based on the community plugins that are inside the Obsidian community, but who knows?This is interesting.And the other thing I want to do is use Airtable iframes inside of Obsidian.And that should be as dead simple as buying the right plan with Airtable and then injecting, inserting the iframe.Different plans allow different kinds of dynamic insertion. Some are just a view. Some are allowing in and out.But those are two things: Obsidian in its native form to generate OPML. And Obsidian with in and out Airtable.This is interesting to me because I know it moves the ball down the pitch of authentic storytelling.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/topgold-audio-clips--2663090/support.

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